{"id":129277,"date":"2025-11-11T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:55:12","slug":"softbanks-half-year-profit-almost-triples-amid-ai-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129277\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank&#8217;s half-year profit almost triples amid AI frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/softbank\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoftBank<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese tech group reveals it has sold its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20251026 Son of SoftBank and Altman of OpenAI\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">SoftBank\u00a0CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI chief Sam Altman have become\u00a0close partners in developing artificial intelligence\u00a0businesses. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>TSUBASA SURUGA<\/p>\n<p>November 11, 2025 16:37 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group has revealed it sold its entire stake in chipmaker Nvidia last month for $5.83 billion as it reported a net profit of 2.92 trillion yen ($18.9 billion) for the six months ending in September, nearly triple the figure from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Japanese tech group reveals it has sold its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion SoftBank\u00a0CEO Masayoshi Son&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,15408,363,364,89498,89496,111,139,69,5340,89495,145,89497],"class_list":{"0":"post-129277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-almost","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-frenzy","13":"tag-half-year","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-profit","18":"tag-softbanks","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-triples"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}